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Burberry shares up 8% as U.S. sales strengthen
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Shares of
Burberry
are up more than 8% at 11:33 a.m. London time (6:33 a.m. E.T.), after the luxury retailer reported a 4% year-on-year increase in U.S. sales in its fiscal first-quarter results.
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CNBC’s Karen Gilchrist
reports here
on why the figures are a strong signal for the beleaguered company, even as tariff headwinds loom.
— Jenni Reid
BP shares up 1.8% after U.S. onshore wind business sale
Shares of British oil major
BP
rose 1.8% during early morning deals after the London-listed company
announced
the sale of its U.S. onshore wind business, BP Wind Energy, to U.S.-based LS Power.
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The deal, which comes as part of BP’s $20 billion
divestment program
, is expected to be concluded by the end of the year.
“We have been clear that while low carbon energy has a role to play in a simpler, more focused bp, we will continue to rationalize and optimize our portfolio to generate value,” William Lin, BP executive vice president for gas and low carbon energy, said in a statement.
“The onshore US wind business has great assets and fantastic people, but we have concluded we are no longer the best owners to take it forward,” he added.
— Sam Meredith
Saab shares pop 10%
Shares of
Saab
were last seen trading 10% higher, after the company reported stronger-than-expected profit and sales growth for the second quarter.
—
Chloe Taylor
European shares open higher
We’re around 15 minutes into the final session of the week, and European stocks are broadly moving higher as trading kicks off.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 was last seen 0.3% higher, with most sectors in positive territory.
Among major bourses, the French CAC 40 is leading gains on a jump of 0.5%.
Germany’s DAX and London’s FTSE 100 were last seen trading 0.3% and 0.1% higher, respectively.
—
Chloe Taylor
Defense giant Saab reports profit beat amid ‘large interest in products’
Swedish defense giant
Saab
reported stronger-than-expected second operating income of 1.98 billion Swedish krona ($200 million) this morning.
It marks a 49% jump from the same period a year ago, and beat the 1.71 billion krona expected by analysts polled by LSEG.
Quarterly sales rose by a better-than-expected 30% year on year.
“We are strengthening our market position and see a continued large interest in our products and solutions,” Micael Johansson, President and CEO of Saab, said in a statement alongside the results. “Saab’s sales growth is high and we continue to invest to build capacity and meet long-term strong demand from the defence sector.”
Saab manufactures a range of military hardware including fighter systems, weaponry and submarines.
—
Chloe Taylor
Burberry sales saw smaller-than-expected decline in first quarter
Burberry
‘s comparable store sales fell by a smaller than expected 1% in its fiscal first quarter, as the luxury fashion house touted its turnaround strategy as “positioning the business for a return to sustainable, profitable growth.”
Analysts had been expecting a year-on-year decline of 3%, according to news agency Reuters.
During the same period a year ago, comparable sales fell by 21% year on year.
—
Chloe Taylor
EU-U.S. trade agreement framework was ‘close’ before 30% tariff threat
Michal Baranowski, Polish undersecretary of state at the ministry of economic development and technology, has been speaking to CNBC this morning about the European Union’s trade negotiations with the Trump administration.
Over the weekend, U.S. President Donald Trump
sent the bloc a letter
informing officials that he would slap 30% tariffs on EU goods starting from August.
“On the big picture, we were close before we received this letter,” Baranowski told CNBC’s “Europe Early Edition.”
“It is bit of a rollercoaster negotiations for everyone. So, I would say that we are certainly close but, of course, we will be there only until we can actually put some things on paper.”
—
Sam Meredith, Chloe Taylor
What to watch today
It’s another busy day on the earnings front, with
Danske Bank
,
Saab
,
Skanska
and
Burberry
among the regional companies set to update investors on their finances.
As for economic data, Germany will release its June producer price index figures, Italian construction output figures are due, and Spain will publish its latest balance of trade figures.
—
Chloe Taylor
Here’s what’s moving markets
Optimistic sentiment on the U.S. economy has been fueling a flurry of positive trading across the globe.
On Wall Street
, the S&P 500 closed at am all-time high on Thursday, while the Nasdaq Composite also hit a record high.
Better-than-expected earnings from
Netflix
,
PepsiCo
,
United Airlines
also helped lift U.S. indexes higher.
Overnight in the Asia-Pacific region, Australian stocks
reached a record high
after rising unemployment figures
fueled bets of a rate cut
from the country’s central bank. Investors in the region were also reacting to
a cooling inflation print out of Japan
.
In Europe, investors are still monitoring trade tensions between the European Union and the United States.
—
Chloe Taylor
Opening calls
Good morning from London.
European stocks look set to move higher at Friday’s opening bell. Futures tied to the
Euro Stoxx 50
were last seen 0.35% higher.
Those tied to Germany’s
DAX
index are around 0.45% higher, while futures tied to London’s
FTSE 100
were last seen up by 0.3%.
—
Chloe Taylor
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